The Lightning played at the Harbor Day gym because their venue is under construction.

"I don't think the service errors were because of a change of venue," Thomassen said. "Overall our guys weren't making hustle plays. We didn't have the normal energy or momentum … We need to know this is the playoffs and we can't afford to come out with low-energy effort."

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Junior Cole Kirby had 27 kills and only four errors to go with nine digs, while junior Chris Zadra had 14 kills and nine digs. Sophomore Kent Kawaguchi had 40 assists and three kills.